The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-03-19
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
How the Kitchen and Cooking Utensils
Can BE Kept in a Bright Condition.

How the Kitchen ana COOKING Utensils
Can BE Kept in Bright Condition.
| If your chopping-bowl, etc, have the
taste of onions clinging to them,
nothing removes this most offensive
odor as well as good securing with
wood ashes. This cheap and ever
handy commodity will also keep tins
and steel bright, if you are ever SO stu
ated that sapolio is not easily procured.
Our Observation-Disclosures always used
this simple material for securing tins,
etc., and who has not heard of their
well-deserved and boosted reputation
for shining and spotless kitchen uten-
I silsp Put IA little washing soda and
soft soap in the water in which your
iron pots and pans are to be washed.
/ and you will find the grease comes of
/ quite readily. Copper utensils need
the greatest care, as yerdigris is so apt
/ to collect upon them. If once week
you will scald them with hot vinegar,
and then wash in clear hot water, you
will find that they give you very little,
/ if any, trouble. A very simple and eff
! fective mode of cleaning the grid-iron
is to place it on the fire and allow it to
become hot, then rub each separate wire
with crust of dry bread, and You
will find that this win take off much of
the black which still remains after the
regular washing in hot suds In dry
/ ING cooking utens Is, do not stand them
on the fire, as this is apt to burn empty
vessels, but let them stand near the fire
| for few minutes, and it will dry them
so thoroughly that it will prevent them
/ from rusting. Have You ever used
what is called an Iron dish-cloth?"
If you have, | feel sure | need not
recommended it, but if not, let me say
that | know nothing else of the kind
which will save more time and pa
| thence. BY the use of this dish-cloth
| you can dispense with that disagree;.-
BILE process, knife-scraping, in cleans
ing cooking utensils. Keep pot and
pan holders always in the kitchen. if
you would save your dish-towels from
being used for handling greasy cook
ing vessels. You can make them the
same as iron-holders are made, only
they require to be at least double the
size of the latter.
If you have occasion to close your
house for any length of time, and you
| fear your iron-ware and stove may rust,
rub them all over thoroughly with
sweet oil, or, wat is as good and
cheaper, lard without salt. Our mod
ern tubs and pals, being made of many
pieces OF wood held together by bands
of metal. shrink and fall apart unless
kept either in damp place or allowed
to stand with little water in them.
Next let us proceed to the sink, which
is often much neglected. 1t should
frequently be scrubbed out with wash
ing soda, and once in while pour
down the pipes pail of hot suds with
a teaspoonful ofpotash or washing soda
dissolved in it. This will eat away the
grease which must collect in the pipes
more or less, and which, if left there,
will cause sewer gas to find its way in
to the kitchen. In very many houses
there are closets under the kitchen
sinks, which are often used to keep
large pots and pans in. This
is most unhealthy as well
as untidy practice, for there is always
more or less of this household enemy,
sewer gas, escaping through the pipes
which run through this closet; and also
these same closets are 4 fayorite resort
of watcr-bugs. The reasons are obyi-
Gus why this is no place to keep YES
sells in which food is constantly cooked.
4 sure, if slow, cure for water-bugS IS
mixture of two-thirds borax and oHc-
third sugar. OF course insect powder.
etc, viii rid YOU of these nu;sarccs,
but | dislike poisons used about the
kitchen, and therefore recommend the
above. Red ants are driven ANY, by
srrinkling red pepper about.
Let the pantry and china closet
shelves be at least busted and wiped OF
during the Saturday morning clcann~,
and keep these same shelves neatly
covered with either white or brown
paper. Christian Union.